This looks really awesome and will be a great example that 4E isn't just combat based dungeon crawling.

Right, it'll be combat-based overland-crawling, now with 150% more minis!

I'm not trying to be intentionally controversial. No, seriously. You guys have seen me on these boards for a few years now and (hopefully) know I'm a pretty easy-going, accepting guy. Certainly my comment wasn't an attack on RedJason.

But man, D&D4 is just not gelling with me. Maybe it's because my group isn't heavy into role-playing (at least, not as much as I am), but rather into "roll-playing". Maybe because this edition feels so "Diablo II with paper & pencils" (IMHO, YMMV, etc etc)....I dunno.

I can't answer why you find the above to be true. It's a matter of preference, but based on what I've read in several places you're not alone. Hell, I'm still struggling with some aspects of 4E.

But it's my job to insert (what I hope to be) fun into any game-system I write for, and I love my job. Hopefully, that gets translated into the final product.

My entry in From Here to There, for example, is about a toll station haunted by a nightmare-demon. Originally it was about a resurgence of a cult of Bobugbubilz, but then I happened upon the idea of nightmares, and how that would give me a chance to insert human (and halfling) fear archetypes into a D&D setting. It might be those psych courses I took back in the day, but I dig that.

The adventure goes into greater detail, but it focuses less on combat (although there is some) and more on solving what happened and undoing it.The situation of an adventure is always more interesting to me than the combat*.

Hopefully all that eventually equals "fun." If it instead equals "teh suck," it's back to the drawing board.

*I've often lamented that - as long as somebody has a sword or a torch in their hand - I can write a Call of Cthulhu adventure, but as soon as they've got a .32 revolver or a flashlight, my mind goes blank.

I think I know where you're coming from on this one, Treebore.Fun game, btw.

So why is M&M fun and D&D4 less?

If it were any other game it would just exist happily in the marketplace, but since its D&D there are certain tropes that people come to expect, and they're not there anymore. I think 4E is a blast but its very different. I've been playing for 28 years so its a welcome change. I've also come to realize the things that are missing are things that pushed me away in the first place. But I digress...

For those of you who missed it, we announced today that From Here to There will be released at a price of only $9.99 for an 80-page book with 9 adventures inside! It's part of our overall Great Price strategy. See http://www.goodman-games.com/greatprices.html for full details.

We're proofing the final layout of From Here to There now. It's packed with good adventures. I'll be posting summaries of the adventures within sometime in the next couple weeks.

Unfortunately no. There was a bit of a personnel issue regarding the graphic designer, who at this point is officially off the project. New designer's lined up, fresh work will commence in a couple weeks, and hopefully it will be back on track soon.

For those of you who missed it, we announced today that From Here to There will be released at a price of only $9.99 for an 80-page book with 9 adventures inside! It's part of our overall Great Price strategy. See http://www.goodman-games.com/greatprices.html for full details.

I placed preorders for this and the Book of Rituals at my flgs awhile ago based on this... I figured I'd do my part at trying to get the Goodman goodness in the store.

I got a call earlier this week that it was finally in and I could pick it up. It's a nice looking book that I'm looking forward to getting to read, and I don't want to be a downer, but a warning that the price had basically doubled would have been nice, seeing as how the price on the back is $19.95 and not the advertised $9.99 Maybe I just missed the announcement or something?

Yes, the price did go up as we finally wrapped it up and got the final specs. We issue an update to distributors (and change our web site) but that doesn't always trickle down to every store appropriately. Shoot me an email and I'll get you a free PDF of your choice to make up the discrepancy!

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